Does her dad own a brewery?

Okay – so Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie was a bit saucy on the radio today:

Speaking on Heart 107.3’s Kim and Dave Show this morning, Ms Lambie revealed that she hasn’t been in a relationship in 11 years but is open to love.

“They must have heaps of cash and they’ve got to have a package between their legs, let’s be honest,” Ms Lambie said. “I don’t need them to speak, they don’t even need to speak.”

Then there was a bit of banter with a caller:

“Do you have plenty of cash?” Ms Lambie asked Jamie.

“I’m just a bit concerned that at 22 years of age and living in Tasmania you might not be quite there yet?”

Jamie assured her he does have plenty of cash.

She then asked, “I’m just a bit concerned because you’re so young, I’m not sure you’d be able to handle Jacqui Lambie.”

Jamie assured her he could.

And then Ms Lambie asked the really important question, “Are you well-hung?”

Jamie assured her he is … “like a donkey”.

So now Jamie and Senator Lambie are going on a date. Good luck buddy – take her somewhere nice and treat her like a lady.

Rather than treat the whole exercise as some light hearted banter and laugh it all off it seems everyone has gone into humourless prude mode. Sure if a man were to say that all he wanted was a woman with huge knockers who didn’t need to talk much we’d be taking a somewhat different perspective. But that didn’t happen and so what? Yes – I am holding men and women to somewhat different standards, and beta-males will have get over it.

No that’s not it at all. It’s about hypocrisy of the left. She’s a Senator and is behaving like a crass bogan frightbat but apart from that if a male conservative politician said something similar targeting a female, the presstitutes in the hate media and the leftards on twitter would go nuclear for days and the howls of misogyny would be heard from Beta Centauri.

Gab – Yes. But we know they’re dickheads, we don’t need to follow their example. At the same time, if she’d not been giving the Abbott government a hard time a lot of people would be defending her, or just laughing it off.

Fleeced – Some of those wicked camper slogans and witty and funny and other just not.

Rather than treat the whole exercise as some light hearted banter and laugh it all off it seems everyone has gone into humourless prude mode.

I’m sorry Sinc, in a country where a man has been lambasted for winking, looking at his watch and wearing a blue tie, to the utter howls of much of the leftist media for quite some time, there are real issues of hypocrisy and double standards at play. If anyone needs to get a sense of humour, its the feminists.

But we know they’re dickheads, we don’t need to follow their example. At the same time, if she’d not been giving the Abbott government a hard time a lot of people would be defending her, or just laughing it off.

Rubbish. It has nothing to do with how Lambie hates Abbott. It has everything to do with an oafish and boorish series of comments from a low-rent Senator.

I could laugh it off too, if not for the double standard which would see a conservative senator drawn and quartered and eaten alive throughout the next seven-day news cycle news for being so disgusting.

She’s all class, fully representative of ther boganisation of Australia and its politics. Frankly I don’t care if she says she wants to shag a great dane, anything that pops out of her gob is cretinous.

August 11, 2005
Victorian Julian McGauran, the Nationals’ whip in the Senate, was caught on parliament’s video cameras flipping his index finger at the Opposition side of the Senate, following a narrow vote.

Senate President Paul Calvert told parliament he had viewed the footage but did not believe the incident breached parliament’s official rules of behaviour.

“I remind the Senate that I require all senators to behave with decorum and courtesy in the chamber – that is what the Australian people expect.

Labor frontbencher Stephen Conroy said he was surprised the behaviour had not been ruled obscene and unparliamentary.

You disappoint me Sinc. Yes, I agree, La Lambie didn’t say anything to get uptight about, but if it had been a male MP saying “My ideal woman must have a nice, tight, whatsis.”, the howling would have gone on until he castrated himself in public.

BTW Sinc, what’s the bet at your place of work that if you were even accused of making comments such as that about a student or a colleague, whether true or not, your tenure would be revoked faster than a rat up an aqueduct? The time for having a laugh has long past.

if somebody is on an undesired 11 year dry spell, and is lashing out in anger and frustration, that is a problem for society, if they are in charge of a weopon of mass destruction.

as a livestock grazier, i see the next green government as the beginning of the end for my business, so senator lambie going on the fritz, because she is leading an unaffirmed desocialised unfulfilling life–while being swing vote in the senate, is a looming disaster.

it makes you wonder if a good clean out of the pipes would be all it would take to get the kitten purring again.

I’m trying to get all stippy about your Boxing Day sales joke, but to be honest, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe a misdirected apology? Wrong fred? Maybe I was having a nanna nap at the time.

In any event, consider yourself absolved, m’ old son. And keep up the entertaining posts.

Nah – don’t be silly. Just buy it myself and give it to her saying, “I’ve saved you the effort of buying me a present this year.” That’s what she does with the jewellery. Mind you, I’ve already bought the Judge Dredd bobblehead, and two presents seems a bit extravagant.

ps. my birthday is far, far into the future. I’m going to be young for a long, long time yet.

Third person talk – “I’m not sure you’d be able to handle Jacqui Lambie” signals that this person is indeed above all of you Public Service plebs, and she’ll do what she wants.
Cos she’s Jacqui Lambie.

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No that’s not it at all. It’s about hypocrisy of the left. She’s a Senator and is behaving like a crass bogan frightbat but apart from that if a male conservative politician said something similar targeting a female, the presstitutes in the hate media and the leftards on twitter would go nuclear for days and the howls of misogyny would be heard from Beta Centauri.

What’s really offensive about the whole thing is her gleeful destruction of the office and of the institution. As evinced not by her vainglorious and pathetic boorishness in this case, but by her poisonously personal reference of the PM as ‘a tool’.

The offence is not merely the blatant double standard, but also the desecration of the office of the Senate. If everyone is okay with a crude, loudmouthed newbie launching our parliament into these new, house-bogan dimensions, then okay. I’m not going to bother trying anymore. I’ll get on the pension, take Clive’s promised extra $200.00 per fortnight (week?) and leave the next generations to assume the worries I’ve been bearing.

She then asked, “I’m just a bit concerned because you’re so young, I’m not sure you’d be able to handle Jacqui Lambie.”

Our “new poster” got it in one: the bogan parkingcopesque simpleton is so enamoured with her accidental power and money, she’s now using the meeja to pick up toyboys and has slipped effortlessly into referring to herself in the third person.

It’s a slow-motion car wreck we’ll be paying for at least for the next decade. And the AbbottSatan Regime has chickened out on stopping political gangsters like Glen Druery from gaming the Senate voting system.

Our “new poster” got it in one: the bogan parkingcopesque simpleton is so enamoured with her accidental power and money

I “know a bloke wot knows a bloke” who was on the staff of a politician who shall remain nameless. This theme came up in conversation. As the staffer poured himself another wee dram, he said “Think about it. You want a car for 7 a.m tomorrow. it’s organized. Somebody sorts your papers, keeps your diary, makes sure you are fully briefed on every contingency…it would be very easy for it to go to your head.” I wonder if this is what the new Senator is discovering?

Haven’t seen Frank Walker from National Tiles post here for some time now.

Any chance we could do a deal with that troll to post here in exchange for not setting out to annoy the shit out of me and everyone else in his fucking radio ads? I’m astonished this cretin hasn’t destroyed his business already: he treats his customers like idiots.

Seemed a bit crass. She isn’t the brightest lass though and the questions clearly got her on the hop. As for bringing the Senate into disrepute – please, this is the place that saw Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle heckle George W. Bush. For all her faults, I’d back Lambie to have way more class than those two combined.

I’m far more trouble by the fact that Lambie appears to think she was elected to fight for welfare recipients. Look around you love, welfare, the Greens and the dead hand of government have killed North-West Tasmania. Your electorate wants jobs and anyone that stands in the way of that should be your enemy.

My gripe is with her conduct. The “studgate” interview on the radio is conduct unbecoming a Senator.
The people of Tas may elect anyone they wish. I just wish they’d elected someone who knows how to conduct themself in public.

Heh, Deadman, all the kids who thought we Latin scholars at school were a bunch of boring flogs didn’t know what they were missing.

Re Lambie, does anyone know if she is one of Sir Les Patterson’s many and scattered love children? Both the appearance and the temperament hint at the possibility. And since Sir Les would go anywhere, anytime as long as all expenses were paid and the free booze was flowing, he is bound to have called in at the Apple Isle now and then …

Look, Clive Palmer twerked on camera before the election and nobody had a problem with it. I thought that was a far worse crime against decency, as I had no desire to see Clive Palmer twerking, yet without any warnings there he was.

It would have been nice to have a message like, “We wish to caution viewers that once seen, the following footage cannot be unseen.”

“Rather than treat the whole exercise as some light hearted banter and laugh it all off it …”

Turn it up Sinclair.

This thing pulls a couple of hundred thousand a year plus probably another ton in perks to sit on her fat clacker, along with Doris Bagshawe, Sarah Helter-Skelter, Conroy, Cameron, Peris-Kneebone and a clutch of other assorted misfits, to decide how my money is spent and how I may be permitted to live my life.

Bringing to notice her absent intellect serves only to deepen my resentment that this is so.

I also found today that she was a professional defence force bludger for a decade who crafted a taxpayer funded boob job, ducked active service in East Timor and eventually became a victim demanding compensation. The army categorised her as a “malingerer.” There’s nothing at all amusing about that to those who have footed the bill and, one assumes, to her workmates who had to carry her as dead weight.

I’ve discarded any expectation of any of them showing respect for the position – the slag from Altona set the new standard for Australian politicians, to applause too widespread to ignore. We truly are getting the class of representative the bogans favour, as do the two bit hookers from the press.

Today she publicly, crudely bagged one of the most contributive and demonstrably decent men in the Parliament, who sets an impressive demanding personal standard she couldn’t possibly understand. Spivs and urgers like her also do not understand that they need people such as him around to do those things of which they are incapable.

But yeah, nah, give her a pat on the back for turning up – everyone deserves a prize, especially if they make us laugh.

“So now Jamie and Senator Lambie are going on a date. Good luck buddy – take her somewhere nice and treat her like a lady.”

Thanks you Mick for saying everything I don’t have the time to say. She is as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside. I’ve met her type before and it is a matter of disgusted wonder that they continue to thrive.

When we know exactly how our Prime Minister would react, can we really expect any better?

Haha. Classic. “We know exactly” . You’d think any normal person would read that back to themselves and realise how prejudiced it makes them look. Any normal person not living in a bubble of affirmation.

Anyway, the reaction or non-reaction to Lambie’s banter shows that everyone silently acknowledges that there is a vast difference between males and females, no matter how much they spout “equality”.

I hear that when an unnamed senator left the army she wrote to her commander requesting the pleasure of his company at her farewell party; he replied that most of his company refused to volunteer but that he’d send her a couple of platoons.

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.

So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost…

All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I’ll bite on your well-thrown bait Sinc.
You haven’t said why you hold men and women to different standards. If a male Senator said something similar, why wouldn’t you also call it “a bit of banter“? I don’t think it is beta males who have to get over your opinion, rather it is the pantywaisted weak kneed PC brigade who want to turn a blind eye to Lambie’s crass stupidity who should wake up to themselves for their raging hypocrisy.
At least you say you have double standards before the accusations fly.

Someone humor me. Was, or was not the Senator in receipt of any pension, when she ran for the Senate – my understanding is that, anyone receiving a pension is ineligible to run for Parliament? Little matter of the Constitution?

The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a freak accident involving a dental drill and anesthesia, is revived in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains the Problem of Population: Due to a combination of intelligent people not having children and excessive breeding by less intelligent people (see intelligence and fertility), the world is full of morons, with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order. Barlow, who was a shrewd real estate con man in his day, has a solution to sell to the elite, in exchange for being made World Dictator.

Not really. Tasmanians get 10 times the senators that they deserve. Lambie got about 6% of the Tasmanian vote. If a NSW senate candidate got the same amount of votes they would have only got 0.6% of the NSW vote and wouldn’t have been elected.

It’s time to stop this gerrymander so Tasmania stops dumping their dregs into Australia’s senate.

BTW Sinc, what’s the bet at your place of work that if you were even accused of making comments such as that about a student or a colleague, whether true or not, your tenure would be revoked faster than a rat up an aqueduct? The time for having a laugh has long past.

Ha! A portly, bald economics professor who runs a blog laughs in the face of your beta male fumblings.

Apparently she eventually convinced DVA she wasn’t fit and able enough to sit on her arse in the guardroom watching cable tv, and bash pissed diggers from behindd with a nightstick on a Friday night, however she’s fit enough to sit on her arse in the senate, and bash taxpayers with a balance of power waddy.

She’s also having a whinge that DVA are after some dough back, deciding that if she was fit enough to stand for office and campaign, she was fit enough to work. Don’t notice that getting any air time. She’s ideal for the current senate, a lazy, intellectually bereft big mouth with a collosal sense of entitlement and no shame whatsoever about imposing on her fellow citizens.

In all seriousness – Mrs D has put her finger on the issue: If we want to criticise Lambie let’s do it for what she’s actually done to annoy us, as opposed to confected outrage.

No. What she said was revolting from a senator. She went on and on. It was predatory and extremely sexist to someone half her age. She talked about her junk as well as his.

This is not about sides, or the fact that she’s a loathsome scrag. Had a Lib senator put on that vile show my reaction would be “YTF is this person bringing the game into disrepute like this? WTF is wrong with these people??”

If she has a disability pension from DVA which deems her incapable of work the this should be investigated. There are many jobs less demanding than being a Senator in the Defence Force so surely she has committed a crime making her ineligible to be a senator if she has made false declarations in order to gain a pension.

Tart will always be a tart. How did she got her back injured? Sleeping with the “well hanged”? She have two children without father. If she keeps at it and sleep with right union official she will get to top job as the previous tart did.
It is really sickening that this sort of morally corrupt and IQ free person can get to position were they can influence the governing of country and participate in making law of country.
To Sinc:
Please get your dementia and state of mind checked.

She is an object of ridicule – which means that she fits right in with the quality of a number of politicians who have been misguidedly elected to office by Australians who either put no thought processes into their voting decisions – or who have given us all the middle finger in spite against all politicians.

One thing is for certain, Senator Lambie is as crass and as bogan as they come – which might be a good look down at the local pub (the one that needs to be hosed out in the morning) or in the Centrelink queue, but it’s certainly not a redeeming feature for our Senate.

Makes me wish again for not only IQ testing for all our prospective MPs and Senators, but also public personality testing and profiling as well.

A Lurker
#1392116, posted on July 23, 2014 at 5:47 am
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Makes me wish again for not only IQ testing for all our prospective MPs and Senators, but also public personality testing and profiling as well.

Arguing over who did the least PC comment should fade. The important question of how we got to a situation where the Senate is a joke, a waste of space and money, needs to be seriously considered.

At the very least there has to be reform of the voting system. I know it can’t be taken all the way to where it should go – Tasmania should only have the same representation as the ACT or NT.

Does the Senate do what was supposed to do? Does it protect States Rights? Not with the sort of candidate we see getting the golden pass these days. Can’t the lower house do this? Every member of the lower house represents his state.

Even before this latest travesty of an election the party ticket gave us a bunch of senators of decidedly variable quality. You could become a senator via the patronage system run by a bunch of vindictive and vicious mediocrities without having any talent at all.

The Senate as it stands is a huge waste of resources with no redeeming features. The committee system was invented to give them something to do, and has degenerated into another device to be gamed and used for point-scoring.

Bambi Stott-despoya revealed the depth of self-delusion these people become prey to when she said that she and her colleagues were “expert legislators”. They were a hopeless bunch of time servers then, and the current crop is much worse.

Both houses of parliament have been at least partly filled with people you wouldn’t feed, who richly deserve the old adage “tell them nothing, take them nowhere”. But at least the reps have been elected by the people of their electorate, not simply put in there via the patronage system and the dodgy electoral system.

These dunderheads do nothing for state rights, they do nothing for the country, they are self-harm on the institution.

Blogstrop
#1392128, posted on July 23, 2014 at 6:53 am
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But at least the reps have been elected by the people of their electorate, not simply put in there via the patronage system and the dodgy electoral system.

Lolwut? Yeah, no patronage at all in getting preselected by one of the major parties, who own the House of Representatives…

I like that idea. Why is the electoral commission assisting with the branding of candidates anyway?

If the ballot didn’t have party afficiliation, how-to-vote pamphlets would then actually have a use. If you want to vote for your party, collect a how-to-vote on the way in. Which most people would do.

Rather than treat the whole exercise as some light hearted banter and laugh it all off it seems everyone has gone into humourless prude mode. Sure if a man were to say that all he wanted was a woman with huge knockers who didn’t need to talk much we’d be taking a somewhat different perspective. But that didn’t happen and so what? Yes – I am holding men and women to somewhat different standards, and beta-males will have get over it.

Davo is a master of double standards, as he admits above. He’s also against free speech – he censored my satirical comment yesterday which was no worse than Lambie’s.

It’s about time we started to recognised that this country has completed lost it sense of humour. Political correctness has won.

don
#1392159, posted on July 23, 2014 at 8:41 am
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Davo is a master of double standards, as he admits above. He’s also against free speech – he censored my satirical comment yesterday which was no worse than Lambie’s.

This is a private blog. You don’t have “free speech” here. Start your own blog, you grot.

This is a private blog. You don’t have “free speech” here. Start your own blog, you grot.

I accept that Davo is entitled to censor my comment on his own blog. But that doesn’t invalidate my point that his so-called belief in free speech is non-existent. He doesn’t practice what he preaches. He’s a hypocrite.

Lolwut? Yeah, no patronage at all in getting preselected by one of the major parties, who own the House of Representatives…

1. One or two of those parties actually have preselection ballots. Labor is known to favour parachuting people in. Is it any wonder minor parties and independants don’t do so well? Look what they’ve delivered in the Senate. Look at what they delivered for Gillard/Greens.
2. Your concept of the Reps being “owned” needs further explanation.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
#1392205, posted on July 23, 2014 at 9:43 am
Has anybody approached Clive Palmer for his comment on the standard of his parties candidates? Do Ms Lambe’s views represent PUP policy in any way?

Official PUP policy platform is: “Gas, ass or cash” and “no fat chicks”. Lambie’s latest policies are certainly in the same spirit.

I admit MLSB may have been plonked in front of the TV watching a few to many repeats of The Wackiest Ship in The Army and maybe McHales Navy, but she is, by comparison, the epitome of couth and decorum. And of course, cuteness and yummyness.

The constitution combined with an informed voting public make the party system work.
Parties are just along for the ride.
There will always be political parties; there’s no danger of them going anywhere.
But there’s no need for the Electoral commission to help existing parties with their branding and sponsorship of candidates, by helpfully putting little brand names next to the candidates names on the ballot.

Jacqui Lambie enlisted in the Regular Army in 1989 and served 10 years in RACT and RACMP rising to the rank of CPL. She was subsequently reduced in rank for assaulting a colleague whilst drunk. She was injured on duty and the Army paid for a breast reduction to ease back pain. She deployed to East Timor but was deemed medically unfit for duty and was discharged. After a lengthy dispute with DVA, she was declared a malingerer and her Army pension stopped. The Australian public has been sold a PUP!

I suspect that this whole post is really an attempt by Sinc to play devil’s advocate and provoke a reaction merely to drive up comments and blog hits. I am reluctant to take the bait on occasions like this.

Good luck buddy – take her somewhere nice and treat her like a lady.

It is obvious that she is not a lady though. Moreover, the notion that chivalry and paternalism somehow demands that women should be permitted to act like crass, foul mouthed sluts while men should be expected to be prim and proper is obtuse. The whole point about traditional gender roles is that women were expected to behave like ladies in order to be treated like ladies.

Although Sinc’s stated views do indeed parallel modern chivalry, aka feminism, I hope he doesn’t drink that kool-aid.

None military readers of the Cat may care to note that such promotion is automatic for RACMP (Royal Australian Corps of Military Police) – the rank gives you the authority to order round the common soldiery. Promotion after that is very slow, indeed.

She deployed to East Timor but was deemed medically unfit for duty and was discharged.

I was under the impression that she “went sick” with a “bad back” a couple of days BEFORE
she was supposed to be deployed. The military has several choice – and unkind- expressions for such conduct.

Surely SInc, the point is that the Senator has behaved boorishly and not in the way we expect MPs to behave.

Of course if a male had done this we would have heard a lot of cries about political issues such as sexism. But such political crimes aren’t the issue. The issue is that we expect our MPs not to talk about sex in public. We expect a bit of old fashioned decorum.

Yes, the type of quip that may have been made “with the girls” in private; goes with much of her open, frank public talk; presumably, she’s now been set onto the steep part of the learning curve of diplomacy.

*The word “ladette” has been coined to describe young women who take part in laddish behaviour. It is defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary as: “Young women who behave in a boisterously assertive or crude manner and engage in heavy drinking sessions.

How crass. A woman not fit to hold office making unbecoming comments about herself and her son are a realistic display of how the wider society had debased itself. All up it really only harmed herself.

I agree with others who have commented her base comments are nothing when compared to the lies Windsor made under protection of priviledge about John Anderson, or the vile speech (once again made with the protection of the coward’s castle) by the pea-brained Ludlam before the replay of the WA senate vote.

You could talk about the people who defended the p3do Collins and a number of others in the same bracket.

RL – I suspect you and I share the view that nobody should be discussing their sex life or sex preferences in public. Yet that isn’t the world that we live in. Not any more. Yet it isn’t a hanging offence either.

It certainly has made the international news – my mother has sent me the story from the local news.

She apparently permamently injured her vertebrae while on a two day bushwalk carrying a standard field pack, and subsequently had breast reduction surgery at public expense to attempt to mitigate her disability, to no avail. I believe she used this catastrophic failure to avoid deployment, and having to actually do any provost work. A class act all over; unfortunately the ADF has a number of such types, almost invariably REMFs.

The AAT case makes for interesting reading.
A later incident where one walked in front of a car when one was apparently under the significanct influence of alchohol was also labled a ‘suicide attempt ’caused by the prior injury and subsequent treatment by a certain government department.
I do hope if there are overpayments of pension entitlements they are pursued in the same way overpayments to any other Australian are pursued.

Sinclair – when I joined a top end subsidiary of a US multinational I was welcomed by the chairman (an outstanding fellow, old Melbourne money and son of a past chairman) who concluded that with “Yours is a powerful and influential role. I want you to know that we do not phuk the female staff.”

His expectations of exceptionalism pervaded throughout the organisation (that was the only time I heard him swear, it was done for maximum effect) he was widely admired and people simply loved being a part of it.

His high standards had a commercial value in a very competitive market where tiny measures made a difference, and they brought an inherent discipline, a profitable discipline. It wasn’t merely olde worlde nostalgia, clinging to his ancient way and cobwebbed ’1950s morality.

Would his modern counterpart have it as “Look, make sure you appoint a secretary with big knockers, eh Mick?” Has the world we live in reached that different point now? Maybe Our Toddy from rugby league, who pisses into his own mouth in public toilets before the mobile phone cameras, has a glittering career ahead after all, as the promotional face in new product placement – he’s a hoot with the young ‘uns and he has two and a half million facebook tweeters.

I suspect that our lively candid and out there lass, if she was part of the Commonwealth Bank’s public relations team for example, would be facing something immediate today, not being promotion. She’d be feeling as depressed as a prospective hangee, gazing down at her severance cheque and pondering what might have been.

That won’t happen though because she’s entitled to her four grand a week plus perks, not sackable and need not behave to any standard at all for the next six years. Even if she ramps up her cracking media performance next week and the week after that will not change.

“RL – I suspect you and I share the view that nobody should be discussing their sex life or sex preferences in public.”

You’ve been away for a period I believe Sinclair but even before you departed the only thing occupying many parliamentarians’ time, most of the media and, we are led to believe, all ‘Strayn famlees, is the sex life of blokes who want to marry blokes. Their lobbyists demand we focus closely on what they do in bed. Billy Clinton hisself is addressing thousands at a conference in Melbourne featuring them on this very day.

Your view that people should not be “discussing their sex life in public” is sooooo ancient!

Mick – Indeed. The very first day I became an academic the then head of school said to me I could do what I liked, but would be fired if I ever lost an exam script or “fucked any of the students”. My current employer has a slightly different set of rules – but I have never lost an exam script. Ever.

Now I think people are mixing up a whole lot of different contexts – Senator Lambie hasn’t abused her office or misused any power or authority that comes from her office for personal gain. If she were to employ someone of the basis that he was well-hung then that would be a problem. She has expressed an opinion as what she finds attractive in a partner or dating companion.

“Now I think people are mixing up a whole lot of different contexts – Senator Lambie hasn’t abused her office or misused any power or authority that comes from her office for personal gain. If she were to employ someone of the basis that he was well-hung then that would be a problem. She has expressed an opinion as what she finds attractive in a partner or dating companion.”

All of that is true Sinclair.

On reflection I am more concerned with expectation of those carting around “honorable” before their names who, to a degree, influence the thoughts and behaviour of others. As we lower expectations we lose disciplines essential to civilised society.

I suppose this drifts into relativism, a notion in which others here have better read and more developed views than I.

Even oldies in the home of Puritanism can’t be trusted. In 1998 Elizabeth Dole the wife of the presidential candidate was bragging about her husband Bob’s performance in the bedroom.

If any of us had any lingering doubts about the coarsening of American culture, we had only to watch the news recently. Turn on the TV, and all you saw were stories about Viagra, the new anti-impotence drug. For example, viewers saw Elizabeth Dole—a woman I admire and respect very much and who is a plausible candidate for president in the year 2000—telling the world that her husband was in the protocol test for Viagra. And, she added with a grin, “I can tell you that the drug works.”

If she is doing it because she enjoys talking about her sex life in public, that’s a bit weird but we are a free people, you don’t have to listen.

If she is doing it to genuinely find a partner then good luck to them both.

I kind of suspect this is yet another PUP publicity stunt, to crank the hand wringers, and drop some spiders on the heads of the PC wackers, that’s excellent. Get the suckers to promote their party. There’s a pattern to how they operate, always maximum publicity out of every situation, just like there’s a pattern to how the manufactured outrage operates.

I kind of suspect this is yet another PUP publicity stunt, to crank the hand wringers, and drop some spiders on the heads of the PC wackers, that’s excellent. Get the suckers to promote their party. There’s a pattern to how they operate, always maximum publicity out of every situation, just like there’s a pattern to how the manufactured outrage operates.

= More free publicity for Clive…

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